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Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum - a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realizes that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture. While the Doctor searches for a missing... read more
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Characters edit
- The Doctor: The last of the Time Lords, an alien race. He travels through time and space in the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension In Space) with a companion.
- Rose Tyler: A young shop girl from London, she travels with the Doctor and joins him on his adventures.
- Mickey Smith: Rose's old boyfriend and close friend. He also occasionally travel with the Doctor and Rose.
- Gnaeus Fabius Gracilis: A kindly old gentleman from ancient Rome. He is looking for his son who has gone missing.
- Vanessa: A young slave girl who seems to be able to predict the future.
- Aulus Valerius Ursus: A sculptor who was commissioned for the statue or Gracilis and Marcia's son, he has an uncanny ability to make the statues extremely realistic.
- Marcia: The wife of Gracilis, she is a kind woman who is distraught over her son's disappearance.
- Fortuna: The goddess of fortune, she is worshipped by many Romans.
- Jackie Tyler: Rose's mother. She is over-protective of Rose, and hates to see her daughter leave to travel with the Doctor.
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“She peered trough Fortuna’s legs and saw that, yes, it was the Doctor. He saw the statue. She shrank back as he hurried forward… and then he realised that it wasn’t her.Rose was taken aback. She hadn’t known – how could she know? – what her disappearance had done to him. This Doctor had a look of such despair in his eyes that her heart almost stopped in pity. She wanted more than anything else in the world to jump up, go to him, tell him that everything was going to be all right.”
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And the cheek became flesh. Pale flesh, dark hair, intense brown eyes. His tunic rippled back into cloth, ten toes wiggled within his sandals. Arms flexed, and grabbed Rose into a hug. Soft lips pressed hers with a kiss of gratitude and joy and unspeakable pleasure at being alive.
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'Blimey,' said a voice from behind. 'Reminds me of a girl I once knew. Wonder whatever happened to her.' The Doctor had caught up with them and he gave Rose a smile that could probably melt even a marble statue. She grinned at him.
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Dear Doctor Happy unbirthday! Bet you didn't know I could sew. Marcia showed me what to do. Love Rose The Doctor crumpled the note in his hand, overcome with grief and anger and helplessness.
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'Oh, yes,' she was told. 'Elves, pixies, gnomes – the Moomins, Chorlton and the Wheelies, SpongeBob SquarePants – they all tried to invade you at some point.
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'Steady on, Ted,' the Doctor said. 'It's not easy being a 'bear'-back rider, you know.'
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'Blind fortune. She doesn't judge who deserves her favours, she just throws them out at random. Like a bride chucking her bouquet.' The Doctor grimaced. 'I caught a bouquet once and nearly ended up married to an elephant.'
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The Doctor petted a peacock, which made a mewing noise like a cat. He mewed back at it.
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'Hard to believe,' the Doctor told the bear, 'that teddy bears are so cute and you're so... not. No offence.'
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Ursus stepped forward. 'Watch your tongue when you speak to the goddess!' he snarled. The Doctor frowned. 'I think that would make speaking rather difficult,' he said. He stuck his tongue out and crossed his eyes to look down on it. Therterly inghockigal,' he said.
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'Rose is prettier than you,' the Doctor told the statue. 'Thanks,' said the statue.
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First Sentence edit
Rose carefully dropped three pound coins into the large collecting box at the entrance to the British Museum.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 7 of 31 in Doctor Who: Tenth Doctor. (standard series)
Followed by The Feast of the Drowned.
This book is in Doctor Who. (universe)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: BBC Audio
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 1-84607-063-5
Page Count: 249
Publisher: BBC Audio
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 1-84607-063-5
Page Count: 249
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.92
Subjects edit
- Books › Children's Books › Literature › Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror › Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
- Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Media › Doctor Who
- Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery
- Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction
- Books › Comics & Graphic Novels › Graphic Novels
- Books › Literature & Fiction
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